By Jonathan White Thousands braved thunder and lightning in Nantwich to enjoy the Holly Holy Day “Battle of Nantwich & Winter Fayre”. Sealed Knot troops paraded down Welsh Row to the town centre where they lined up for inspection.
Malbank School in Nantwich is host an FA Tesco Skills football programme for boys and girls aged 5-11. Laura Woodcock, FA Skills coach for the Nantwich area, is now running mixed and girls only sessions.
Young Nantwich athlete Hayley Jones has scooped a bronze medal at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow. The 24-year-old former Malbank High student was in the final leg of the 4x100m relay on the final day of the competition today (August 18).
Nantwich pupils have clocked up another success – in an initiative to design timepieces for a local retailer. Youngsters at Malbank School and Sixth Form College ticked all the right boxes in YET ( Young Emerging Talent) initiative set up by teacher Claire Magee.
A teenager from Wistaston near Nantwich has scooped a silver medal at the European Triathlon Championships in Turkey. James Briscoe, 19, came runner up in the men’s under 20s class, with a time of two hours, 10 minutes and 30 seconds.
Pupils from Malbank School in Nantwich learned about food production and farming during a visit to Reaseheath College. Year 7 pupils studying climate change, food poverty and sustainable communities, looked at Reaseheath’s farm and glasshouses.
Teenagers from a Nantwich school beat their rivals to win a coveted “Dragon’s Den” style competition. The Malbank School team of Ella-Jade Harris, Meg Wild and Alex Sutton came out on top in the Busch “Make It Enterprising Challenge”.
A senior Council Cabinet member met with Willaston residents over fears about a planned walk-to-school route in Nantwich. Cllr Rachel Bailey, leading the home-to-school transport review, attended a public meeting to listen to residents’ views on the proposed route to Malbank School.
Parents in Willaston are fighting to save a free bus service which carries pupils from the village to Malbank School. Cheshire East Council has identified a “walking route” which they say could mean the withdrawal of free transport.
A brainy Nantwich pupil is celebrating a top grade in an exam she took – three years ahead of schedule! Alex Leigh, a student at Malbank School and Sixth Form College, picked up her A grade from her Maths AS level with hundreds sixth formers this week.
By Jonathan White A Wistaston man and his teenage son are to tackle a 190-mile charity bike ride on the Trans-Pennine Trail. Howard Barker and his son Ben, 15, are cycling from Liverpool to Hornsea in aid of their local church.
More than 400 people visited Nantwich Civic Hall to pick up baby bargains, advice and products in aid of the One in Eleven Appeal. Mums, dads and parents-to-be browsed the stalls from 40 traders at the Nantwich Baby Fair “Bumps, Babes and Beyond”.
Nantwich schoolchildren will be safer thanks to a new pathway in the town, say councillors. The £60,000 route linking Taylor Drive and Edmund Wright Way will allow pupils to walk safely to Malbank School and Sixth Form College and Millfields Primary School.
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